Category: Articles

Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis

Cornelia Parker, Agnes Denes and Otobong Nkanga are among 15 artists hoping to change our response to the climate crisis. But can an art show alter people’s behaviour?
Leonor Antunes: The Apparent Length of a Floor Area

With her delicate metal nets, homely cork floors and cascading ropes, Antunes reflects her interest in modernist design and architecture, and the often-marginalised crafts and practitioners behind it
Alberta Whittle: Create Dangerously

In this immersive show, the Barbadian-Scottish artist exposes the iniquities of racism and colonialism, while keeping alive the hope for a fairer, more just society
Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection

If there is one thing great art institutions usually try to avoid, it is fakes. The Courtauld has turned that on its head, with a show that tells the intriguing and instructive stories of the fakes in its own collection
Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief

A survey of the Chinese American artist confirms him as one of the most unusual, ingenious and forceful painters of his time
Capturing the Moment: A Journey through Painting and Photography

This exhibition considers the relationship between the two media, from documentary photography of the 1930s to the digital age. There is little new here, but some standout individual works
The God That Failed: Louise Bourgeois, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko

An intriguing exhibition situates Bourgeois’ characterful early sculptures alongside the two incipient abstract expressionists
Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins

In Ofili’s major new series of paintings, he invites us to contemplate the subject of sin, taking us to a dreamlike and colourful world inhabited by humans and mythological creatures
Tomás Saraceno in Collaboration: Web(s) of Life

The Argentine artist-activist wants us to fall in love with spiders. His thoughtful Serpentine survey might just do the trick
Kent Chan: Future Tropics

In his first UK solo show, Chan bombards us with waves of heat and sound in an intensely kinaesthetic, environmentally oriented work